An epiphany in browsing

Advantages and Disadvantages of Web Mail

Web mail is among the most helpful web applications online,
it lets you to access, launch, accept and control your email throughout a web browser. The great component of web mail is
that you may access your email anywhere in the world, providing
it has an online connection as well as web browser.

It has been popular by several technology businesses including
portals and search engines such as Google Gmail, Yahoo! Mail,
and Microsoft's Hotmail. Typically these businesses present
their complimentary web mail service to attract clients to keep
returning back to their website. Many people check their email
everyday, the more a guest visits a site, the more proceeds a
business could create selling advertisements.

The Pros

Centrally Stored Email. This is the capability to access your
email from any place that has a web browse and Internet
connection. It is not necessary that you are restricted to one
PC at one place to launch and receive email.

Easy and Free Registration. Most web mail services build it very
easy to register for an email account and begin using it
instantly. Even a beginner with almost no tech experience may
start an email account and make use of it in minutes. Most of
web mail services present their email service at no cost.

Huge Storage Capacity. Many web mail services presently let you
to save a data with over one gigabyte. This signifies that it is
not necessary to erase your old emails and its attachments.

Compound Email Addresses. Many individuals have more than one
email address as well as web mail which makes it simple and free
to do so. Many people might have email addresses for bulk email offers that they
register for.

Maintenance and Management. Traditional email users made it
essential for you to maintain and manage to your own email, but
now today, all the maintenance and management is completed by
the web mail services. You don't have to fret about the
reconfiguring software, patches, etc.

The heart of the matter

Noah Grey wrote a piece of software called Greymatter, and with it helped the blogosphere take its first hesitant steps into the limelight. Then he kind of disappeared, and then he kind of came back again. Last week, he kindly agreed to spill his heart to WriteTheWeb, about Greymatter, blogs (and hating the word "blog"), copyright, and spirituality.

spacenamelondon

Jo Walsh is creator and curator of the spacenamespace project, an adventure in collaborative mapping. As an ambitious first step, she is overseeing the building of an interactive map of London, accessible via an instant messaging bot. WriteTheWeb asked her to explain the roots of the idea, and how it is progressing. Her answer follows.

WriteTheWeb relaunches

Nearly three years after launching, we've given WtW a fresh look, and a new injection of content. In 2003 the issues that we set out to cover in 2000 are as relevant as ever: following and campaigning for the writeable web, where participation by creation is as important as reading.

The writeable web: lather, rinse, repeat

NetNewsWire has become one of the most talked-about applications for Mac-owning webloggers. In its initial incarnation as a freeware RSS reader, it successfully boosted awareness and usage of RSS across the blogosphere. Just when people thought it couldn't get any better, the commercial version appeared offering built-in weblog editing too. WriteTheWeb spoke to NetNewsWire's creator, Brent Simmons.

The problem with charging for content

You must have noticed it - the fast-growing trend among content sites to start charging for content. But just because it works for some, it won't necessarily work for all, and there appear to be a lot of site owners who have not grasped that yet.

Standing up against legal threats

Small-time web publishers, fanzine writers, and webloggers have had little or no chance of standing up against The Man when sent a legal letter or email asking them to "cease and desist" with whatever it is they are publishing online. Not until now, that is, thanks to the arrival of Chilling Effects.

What is a k-log?

Some people are taking the concept of weblogs and applying it to the wider concept of knowledge management. The result is k-logging ("knowledge-logging"). But will it catch on - will your employer dump Lotus Notes databases in favour of browsers and blog-style brain-dumps?

Our useless digital archives

A prestigious digital history project conducted by the BBC in the 1980s is now just so much junk, because no-one can figure out a way to read the disks the data was stored on. What does this tell us about all the data we are committing to electronic storage now?